end-run

Example Sentences

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Critics of prediction markets say that trading contracts predicting the outcome of an event on platforms like Kalshi make an end-run around existing gambling regulations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

The Justice Department tried an end-run by transferring the case to its Public Integrity Section.

From Salon • Aug. 25, 2025

Chinese officials, she said, “wake up trying to figure out how to do an end-run around our export controls.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 3, 2023

Happily, Diane Ladd and Laura Dern have broken ground with “Honey, Baby, Mine,” 14 recorded conversations and commentaries that make a brilliant end-run around the one-sidedness of a traditional memoir.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023

If there were one thing Thackeray would like to have, it would be an effective legal end-run through this new fragmentation minefield.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce